Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1478006
Invalid font metrics when printing under certain repeatable conditions
Last modified: 2018-05-03 04:52:43 EDT
Created attachment 1308721 [details] Test output Description of problem: When doing Java Printing API with Java2D, font metrics for ascent and descent return negative or zero values under certain conditions: 1. If the page is printer landscape it return zero for both metrics properties. 2. If the page contains transparency (when the page is sent to the printer as an image) it returns negative values. The landscape problem has greater preference than the one with a transparency, so a landscape page with a transparency return zero. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.141-1.b16.fc26.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: I am attaching a test case and output PDF Actual results: Invalid font metrics when printing with some transparency on the page or using landscape orientation. Expected results: The metrics must always return valid values on all situations of portrait or landscape, transparency present or not. Additional info: The bug doesn't happen on Oracle JVMs that use a proprietary font layout code. The test PDF has 4 pages, 1 and 2 are portrait, 3 and 4 are landscape (page 4 is really landscape printed but the viewer will show it portrait, it is Ghostcript's ps2pdf automatic orientation algorithm in action) - Page 1 is the only one with correct positive values and is shown perfectly. - Page 2 is invalid with negative values because is has transparency. - Page 3 is invalid with zero as values because they are landscape.
Created attachment 1308723 [details] Test case Adding the test that generated the PDF
I was referred to an old OpenJDK bug (so sad it is that old). Added it to this bug
For the record, there is a workaround if the client code is accessible: Use LineMetrics instead of FontMetrics to get ascent and descent. It is probably better to use those when printing because LineMetrics returns float values instead of int of FontMetrics and Java printing is fixed at 72 dpi but real printers has greater resolutions so subpixel font metrics are better. But for closed source applications or that developers don't want to update the fix is needed.
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I'm keeping this alive since the bug appears still not fixed upstream even in 9 and 10.